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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
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Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
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